{"id":16894,"date":"2025-08-21T04:26:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=16894"},"modified":"2025-08-21T04:26:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:26:50","slug":"texas-house-approves-redistricting-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=16894","title":{"rendered":"Texas House Approves Redistricting Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Texas House Approves Redistricting Maps<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Texas House Approves Redistricting Maps<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">The Texas House passed a partisan congressional map on Wednesday after weeks of legislative combat.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cMove passage.\u201d \u201c88 ayes and 52 nays. House Bill 4 is finally passed.\u201d \u201cRedistricting can be done at any point in time. And I want everybody to know this. You want transparency? Here\u2019s the U.S. Supreme Court legal transparency. The underlying goal of this plan is straightforward: Improve Republican political performance.\u201d \u201cThis map doesn\u2019t just weaken minority representation. It severs the connection between communities and their elected officials. It makes it harder for parents, workers and seniors in Dallas County to know that their voices matter as much as anyone else\u2019s.\u201d \u201cWe are Texans. We are Texans.\u201d \u201cIn a democracy, people choose their representatives. This bill flips that principle on its head, letting politicians in D.C. choose their voters. And that is un-American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recent episodes in <span class=\"css-1galvr2\">U.S. &amp; Politics<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Show more videos from U.S. &amp; Politics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Texas House Approves Redistricting Maps transcript Back transcript Texas House Approves Redistricting Maps The Texas House passed a partisan congressional map on Wednesday after weeks of legislative combat. \u201cMove passage.\u201d \u201c88 ayes and 52 nays. House Bill 4 is finally passed.\u201d \u201cRedistricting can be done at any point in time. And I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[915,671,8557,8093,1010],"class_list":{"0":"post-16894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-approves","9":"tag-house","10":"tag-maps","11":"tag-redistricting","12":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}